McCain called his wife a c**t, does this set back women's rights?

If mccain wins the election, would he set women back 50 years?





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01...

McCain called his wife a c**t, does this set back women's rights?
In its way, yes, it does. As long as such behaviour is considered acceptable, women will not be treated with decency.
Reply:Well I don't know if this is true but one that is documented was the time a journalist called Hillary a b#tch and he just laughed rather than reprimand her. It is acceptable apparently. If McCain did call his wife that despicable disgustingly derogatory (do I have enough D words?) name, then this shows what he thinks about women. It could heavily influence the women's rights movement if he gets elected. Someone who is so blatant about their sexism should not be in the position to nominate Supreme Court Judges.





Puke.





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I don't have to know her to know that it isn't right. And I'm sure if a journalist called McCain a b#tch and Hillary laughed that he'd be okay with it-uh...no. And we're not talking about men and women arguing-we're talking about men and women in the media-the potential leaders of our country. I think they should be held up to higher standards. Just my opinion.
Reply:First, McCain would need to win the election, don't know if that will happen. Next, he's as old as my parents, and they're not known for being for women's rights either, even though my mother worked most of her adult life and kept our family out of poverty. So I'm not surprised if a guy his age would be sexist at all, if people a lot younger than him are...but I don't think McCain would set women back 50 years. Bush has been in office for 7 years and he's done quite a lot of damage, but women still have the right to vote, so I think women's rights might just survive McCain's presidency, too, if he got elected, that is...
Reply:I don't think that would harm women's rights at all. Women are still being called the C-word, it's not like it stopped 50 years ago.





This is just typical campaign digging to make a candidate look bad. It's like saying electing Obama would set back black's rights because of what his pastor said.





Honestly, it sounds like he had a bit of an angry outburst many many years ago. Who can say they didn't say something stupid? To go so far as to think this will set back women's rights is disrepecting the strength of the movement. It will take a lot more than the C-word to set us back.
Reply:As pc as we may try to be there exist certain "default insults" that will never go away and that is one of them. B**** would be another one. I don't think this has any bearing on anyone's rights. He was angry man who said something that he shuldn't have said and especially shouldn't have said in front of others because she's supposed to be the woman he loves and is the mother of his children not because it's bad for feminism.
Reply:Ahahahhaa lyantha.





Anywho.





I've been called every curse word in the english language. I've even been called some in different languages!





Does it set back men's rights?





I didn't think so.








People have to stop being so sensitive about curse words.





If i said the word "elbow" and someone felt offended by that, it would be a curse word.





once again, not a big deal.
Reply:I seriously doubt that a single instance of C-bombing will set back women's rights, or that McCain's record on women's issues has been particularly retrogressive. But he does seem to have a reputation for hotheadedness.
Reply:There isn't a man on the planet who hasn't been called a ---- a dozen times.





Either you want equality or you don't.
Reply:The huffington post is an actual newspaper o.O ? I thought it was a deregatory name for some of the other papers.
Reply:ok what it says....is that a person asks him if he called his wife a ****........not that mccain called her a ****.
Reply:Hey, you act like you know her? have you considered ,maybe she is? or at least was being one at the time .
Reply:A human being used an angry insult?





No, its all lies, i don't believe it





Clearly we still live in the stone age

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